Dear Karan, On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 23:27, Karan Sheth wrote: > > If PEAR ports are useful to the community then I would like to take > this as stretch goals / after GSoC goal.
For anyone putting the GSOC mails to "ignore mode" due to heavy traffic ... maybe leave the comment inside https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/4192 or in the first ticket. I have absolutely no clue what they are and whether they are important, so someone else needs to decide. To me personally php is kind of a dying language. Not exactly the case, but I can imagine that any "serious developers" would take the individual modules from whatever internal build/install system it offers anyway as opposed to relying on MacPorts, similar to using "pip". I didn't do the analysis on any of those ports, I would look at the number of commits and the number of tickets filed. If there is or was a serious demand, I would expect some activity. Admittedly Haskell is way more obscure and much less used. But probably the only reason why there's demand for it (from a more substantial number of people) is Pandoc. That said, the decision about whether or not to remove ports now is relatively orthogonal to whether or not it makes sense to create an import later. Mojca